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|name = Sarah Willingham |image = Sarah Willingham portrait.jpg |net_worth = £12m |caption = |birth_name = Sarah Louise Willingham |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|12|21|df=y}} |birth_place = Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = Michael Willingham-Toxvaerd (m. 2008) |children = 4 |other_names = |television = The Restaurant Dragons' Den |occupation = Business entrepreneur, investor and personal finance expert |nationality = British |alma_mater = {{Plainlist}}
|website = {{URL|http://www.sarahwillingham.com/}} }} Sarah Louise Willingham (born 21 December 1973) is a British entrepreneur, investor and consumer champion. She is best known for her management in high street restaurants such as Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express and as an investor in growing businesses on Dragons Den. Willingham bought the Bombay Bicycle Club while in partnership with The Clapham House Group. She was able successfully to expand the Bombay Bicycle Club from a chain of six restaurants to a seventeen chain business. From 2015 to 2017 she appeared in the BBC Two series Dragons' Den. EducationWillingham has two business degrees from Oxford Brookes University[1] and the {{lang|fr|École supérieure de commerce de La Rochelle}} business school in France. In 2004 she completed an MBA from the Cranfield University School of Management. CareerBusinessesHaving spent the early years of her career managing some restaurants including Chessageed Delights,[2] Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express, Willingham decided to go it alone. In partnership with The Clapham House Group, she bought The Bombay Bicycle Club in 2004,[3] and turned a loss-making chain of six restaurants into a profitable chain of 17 restaurants, making it Britain's largest Indian restaurant chain.[4] Willingham sold her share back to The Clapham House Group in 2007[5] where she continued as a main board director responsible for three of their four brands (Tootsies, The Real Greek and The Bombay Bicycle Club) with over 50 restaurants and more than 1,500 employees.[5] In 2004, Willingham co-established an AIM-listed company, Neutrahealth plc,[6] which acquired six businesses in the vitamin and mineral supplements industry and was sold to Indian company Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd in 2011.[7] In April 2008, she helped co-establish a private equity platform in the UK.[8] In 2010, Willingham invested in the London Cocktail Club. The first cocktail bar opened in 2011 on Goodge Street, London.[9] In February 2012 the London Cocktail Club added their second cocktail bar on Shaftesbury Avenue, Their third opened in Great Portland Street, London in 2013.[10] There are now eight bars with their latest opening in Bristol in September 2018 [11] In July 2012, Willingham launched a money-saving website called letssavemoney, a free to use money saving website which aimed to help people take control of their time and be smart with their money, encouraging users to take action through one-minute guides to various aspects of money saving. With growing children and lack of editorial resource Sarah Willingham closed down Letssavemoney in 2018 [12] Being a former owner of the Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant chain, she is recognised as an entrepreneur specialising in high street restaurants. Management Today[13] and The Sunday Times acknowledged her as one of the "35 most successful women under 35" in the UK. In 2007 she was voted one of the "Courvoisier Top 500"[14] and American Express "Spokesperson for Small Business Saturday 2013".[15]In January 2016, Willingham was named one of The Sunday Times '500 Most Influential people in Britain'.[16] In 2017 Willingham received an honorary doctorate from Staffordshire University [17] and in 2018 she received honorary doctorates from Cranfield University [18] and Oxford Brookes University [19] in recognition of her outstanding contribution to business and entrepreneurship TelevisionWillingham was a restaurant inspector and investor on all three series of Raymond Blanc's The Restaurant and as an independent investor on the Sky television series Cooks to Market.[20][21] She has regularly appeared on various TV programmes, including Daybreak, This Morning, The Wright Stuff and Sky News. In March 2015, Willingham was named as one of the new "Dragons" on the BBC television programme Dragons' Den from the thirteenth series which began airing in July 2015.[22] She returned to Dragons' Den for the fourteenth series, beginning in July 2016. Her Dragons' Den investments include:
In September 2016, Willingham took part in a celebrity episode of The Chase. Personal lifeWillingham and her husband Michael live in London and Switzerland with their four children. References1. ^{{cite news|last=Willingham|first=Sarah|title=Alumna returns to BBC Two for third series of The Restaurant |url=https://www.brookesalumni.co.uk/page.aspx?pid=668|registration=yes|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/restaurant/inspectors/|title=The Restaurant – The Inspectors |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 May 2015 }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.investegate.co.uk/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=200404020710362658X|title=Clapham House Grp – Acquisition – FE InvestEgate|work=investegate.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 4. ^{{cite newspaper|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3179392/Sarah-Willingham-People-need-to-change-the-way-they-eat.html|title=Sarah Willingham: People need to change the way they eat|date=11 October 2008|work=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=16 May 2015|first=Roya|last=Nikkhah}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=200703300701340455U|title=FE Investegate -Clapham House Grp Announcements – Clapham House Grp: Trading Update and Placing|work=investegate.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.investegate.co.uk/aim/rns/sch-1---neutrahealth-plc/200502031806422126I/|title=FE Investegate -AIM Announcements – AIM: Sch 1 – NeutraHealth plc|work=investegate.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/news-and-market-deals/mergers-and-acquisitions/1283073/neutrahealth-bought-by-elder.thtml|title=NeutraHealth bought by Elder|work=growthbusiness.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/54e0b514-1bad-11e1-8647-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2x4Rpsgsv|title=Interview: Chain reaction|newspaper=Financial Times|date=4 December 2011|accessdate=16 May 2015|first=Emma|last=Jacobs}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/bars-pubs/london-cocktail-club|title=London Cocktail Club|work=Time Out London}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.londoncocktailclub.co.uk/oxford-circus|title=Oxford Circus – London Cocktail Club|work=London Cocktail Club|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.londoncocktailclub.co.uk/bristol/}} 12. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sarahwillingham.com/biography/}} 13. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/features/667423/mts-35-women-35-2007-bright-young-things/ | title=MT's 35 Women Under 35 2007: Bright young things – Management Today | author=Emma De Vita | date=1 July 2007 | work=managementtoday.co.uk | accessdate=16 May 2015}} 14. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/courvoisier500/table/member-list|title=CVTF500 member list|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/smallbusiness/article-2515499/Small-Business-Saturday-Call-spend-High-Streets-independents.html|title=Shop local! Call to spend more in your High Street's independents as Small Business Saturday arrives|work=This is Money|accessdate=16 May 2015|first=Amy|last=Andrews|date=6 December 2013}} 16. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article1659295.ece |title=Britain’s 500 most influential |date=24 January 2016 |newspaper=The Sunday Times }}{{subscription required}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.staffs.ac.uk/events/graduation/2017/honorariessarah-willingham.jsp|title=Sarah Willingham|first=Staffordshire|last=University|website=Staffordshire University}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/press/former-dragon-and-entrepreneur-receives-honorary-degree|title=Former Dragon and entrepreneur receives honorary degree|website=www.cranfield.ac.uk}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/inspirational-honorary-graduates-for-2018-graduation-ceremonies-announced/|title=Inspirational Honorary Graduates for 2018 graduation ceremonies announced - Oxford Brookes University|website=www.brookes.ac.uk}} 20. ^{{cite web |url=http://skyliving.sky.com/cooks-to-market |title=Cooks to Market |work=Sky Living HD |accessdate=16 May 2015 }} 21. ^{{cite news |last=Willingham |first=Sarah |title=Kitchen commerce for Sky Living HD this September |url=http://www.sky.com/mysky/latestnews/article/my-sky-updates/2012-08/kitchen-commerce-for-sky-living-hd-this-september/index.html |date=16 August 2012 |accessdate=16 May 2015 }} 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/new-dragons-s13|title=Three new Dragons enter The Den for Series 13 – Media Centre|publisher=BBC|date=18 March 2015|accessdate=16 May 2015}} 23. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.sublimescience.com/dragons-den-winning-slime-making-experts-sublime-science-acquired-by-hyphen-capital-and-set-to-take-the-best-of-british-science-to-children-around-the-world/|title=Dragons’ Den Winning Slime Making Experts, Sublime Science, Acquired by Hyphen Capital and Set to Take the Best of British Science to Children Around the World —|publisher=}} External links{{Commons category}}
8 : 1973 births|Living people|The Restaurant (UK TV series)|British restaurateurs|Women restaurateurs|Alumni of Cranfield University|People from Stoke-on-Trent|People educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme School |
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